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Even at the store -
IT TAKES CHANGE TO MAKE CHANGE.
We are told that life is a journey and you have detours, obstacles, distance, etc but they don’t tell you the foundation to this trip—CHANGE. As a kid, we are told to change. We go to work and are told, if you don’t change you will lose your job.
We seek security–don’t change, but it is change itself that makes the difference. I have spent my life building companies and/or sales organizations. I talk to people who see the opportunity but–they don’t want to change. They love the opportunity to become wealthy but they can’t afford the $100 or $200 it takes to get started, or they don’t have the time, or or or or. I then ask them why they are broke/busted/and disgusted. Now it gets interesting—they won’t quit doing what they are doing but they want a better life. They tell me they have been at their dead-end job for 10 years and are totally broke — so I ask them–who’s fault it that?
35 plus years of helping people improve their lives has shown me how we all hate to change. They may not make it with a new company but the real factor is they love the security that has them broke. To be able to be home at 5:30 to watch the news, then their favorite program, then bed when their TV programs are over just to start the next day exactly the same.
I have heard over and over “The only constant is change itself”. If you don’t believe this get out your yearbook. Watch the news and see what change is going on all over the world. Talk to someone who has retired at age 65 and can’t pay the light bill. Ask this age group if they would have done something different when they were younger.
My point??? To improve ones life they have to stop doing what they are doing and find a better vehicle for their journey of life. They have to be willing to make a change to change the end result of their journey. How does one do this?? The answer is really simple–they make up their mind to change and do it with all the fear that comes with that change. They want a better life for their family so they are willing to pay the price.
I still remember the story of the big league baseball player who was just getting by. He stood at the plate and the umpire cried strike one. He was just standing there again when the umpire yelled strike two. The manager yelled from the dugout “what in the world are you waiting for” and the player yelled back “the 15th and the 30th.
Want a better life? Then throw away that security blanket and go for it.
Author : Tremendous Bill Pike
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